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Are you looking for 2009 world facts to help you fill out your baby's memory book? You have come to that page in the baby book where you are suppose to fill out all these statistics about the year your baby was born.

If your like most moms, you are too busy to remember what was the best selling book of the year and you have no clue on how much you use to spend for a loaf of bread.

That's ok. This page is filled with the facts to help you complete that baby book page.

Once you have the facts, take a look at the baby scrapbook ideas article for creating a layout on what baby's world was like when he was born.

Here is a list of some important facts you may want to include in your baby's memory book.

Top News Stories of 2009 According to Time Magazine. Read the full article here.

1. America's Economic Crisis: Now for the Non-Recovery - The worst recession in seven decades.

2. Afghanistan: Can the U.S. Avoid a Quagmire? - Eight years in, the U.S. mission in Afghanistan is as murky as ever. Dismayed by the country's downward spiral, Defense Secretary Robert Gates ousted the top U.S. commander, General David McKiernan, less than midway through his two-year term.

3. Iran's Tumultuous Election and Its Aftermath - Who would have thought that hope would spring from an election marked by fraud, censorship and bloodshed? In June, after incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's presidential election by an implausibly wide margin, millions of Iranians massed in Tehran to shout anti-regime slogans and protest a rigged election.

4. The Divisive Debate Over Health Care Reform - Even as his advisers moved to calm the financial storm that was buffeting the nation, President Obama pinned the hopes of his domestic agenda on overhauling the nation's health care system. It was a dogfight that consumed the first year of his presidency.

5. Massacre at Fort Hood: The New Face of Terrorism? - In the deadliest assault on a military base in the U.S. in history, Major Nidal Malik Hasan rampaged through Fort Hood in Texas on Nov. 5, killing 13 people — including 12 troops — and wounding more than 30.

6. The Death of Michael Jackson Like the passing of Princess Diana or John F. Kennedy Jr., his was an epoch-defining death, an event that announced itself in ways both large (Google News buckled under the volume of searches) and small (in New York City, bodega owners looped Thriller all weekend in tribute).

7. Pakistan: On the Verge of a Breakdown -The country that poses the greatest threat to U.S. security may be neither of those in which the U.S. is embroiled. Beset by feckless leadership, riven by class divisions, preoccupied with its rivalry with India and dotted with militant groups that claim sprawling hinterlands as theirs, Pakistan devolved into a miasma of terrorism and political malaise.

8. Mexico's Bloody Drug War -Some 14,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderón declared war on Mexico's vicious drug cartels in 2006, and the bloodshed escalated in 2008. Border trenches like Juárez — a bullet-pocked city of 1.5 million with swaths of territory under martial law — were ravaged by drug-related killings, with more than 1,800 murders through the first nine months of 2009.

9. H1N1: That's Swine Flu to You - Last winter, a potent virus with a catchy name began ravaging southern Mexico. By April, the pathogen, born in pigs, had bounced around the globe, infecting people in Asia, Europe and the U.S. The virus, spawned by genetic mutations, was something new — and it disproportionately afflicted the young.

10. The End of Sri Lanka's Cataclysmic Civil War -For 26 years, a war between Sri Lankan authorities and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ravaged the island nation, killing more than 70,000 people as the ruling ethnic Sinhalese majority fought the separatist Tamils. In May the fighting came to an end...